Members of citizens group stage protest seeking restoration of Arafath lake

Members of the Puzhal Eri, Arafat Eri Padhukappu Makkal Iyakkam staged a protestation seeking long-awaited restoration of Arafat water astatine Thirumullaivoyal present connected Wednesday.

Spread implicit astir 38 acre, the water is simply a large groundwater root for Thirumullaivoyal and the surrounding neighbourhood. It belongs to the concatenation of h2o bodies successful the occidental fringes of the city. The lake’s excess h2o drains into Ambattur lake. S. Sundaramurthy, its president said “We person been warring a conflict for restoration of the water for 7 years now. Several dormant food were recovered floating successful the water recently. The water is severely affected with sewage contamination and heavy maturation of vegetation.”

Pointing retired that the lake’s archetypal grade has shrunk implicit the years owing to urbanisation and encroachments, Mr. Sundaramurthy said the 2 sewage attraction plants on CTH Road and Saravana Nagar were not functioning properly. This led to the introduction of earthy sewage into the lake.

The organisation demanded that the water beryllium desilted and bund beryllium strengthened. Representatives from different organisations similar Exnora International and Korattur Eri Pathukappu Makkal Iyakkam participated. The agitation was called disconnected aft the Avadi municipal corp assured them to commencement a restoration task worthy ₹50 lakh successful a fewer days.

Officials of the Water Resources Department said they are successful the process of giving nary objection certificate to facilitate Avadi corp to instrumentality the work.